Summing up : final report on studies of the ethical and legal problems in medicine and biomedical and behavioral research / President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.

  • President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research
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1983
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    General Hospital and Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard University; and Charles J. Walker, a physician in private practice in Nashville, Tennessee, and a member of the Board of Trustees at Fisk University. The five Commissioners from the fields other than medical research and practice were Morris B. Abram (Chairman), a New York City attorney, formerly President of Brandeis University and U.S. Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights; Renée C. Fox, a leading medical sociologist and Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania; Albert R. Jonsen, Chairman of the Bioethics Group for the five University of California schools of medicine and member of the former National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects; Patricia A. King, an associate professor of law at Georgetown University and also a member of the former National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects; and Anne A. Scitovsky, Chief of the Health Economics Division of the Palo Alto Medical Research Foundation.’ (For further biographical information on all the Commissioners, see Appendix A.) In February 1980 Dr. Redlich resigned as a member of the Commission because, in addition to his position at UCLA, he was Acting Director of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brentwood, California, and the authorizing legislation pre- cluded the appointment of full-time employees of the Federal government to the Commission. Frances K. Graham, Hilldale Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin and former President of the Society for Research in Child Development, was sworn in to replace Dr. Redlich on May 16, 1980. Commissioner King resigned in May 1980 to accept a position with the Department of Justice. Carolyn A. 7 In addition, P.L. 95-622 directed the heads of six Federal agencies to provide the Commission with liaison officers. Liaison has been provided as follows: Department of Health and Human Services— Charles R. McCarthy, Ph.D., Director, Office for Protection from Research Risks, Office of the Director, NIH, assisted by Richard Riseberg, HHS, Office of General Counsel, and Stuart Nightingale, M.D., Associate Commissioner for Health Affairs, FDA; Department of Defense—Captain Peter A. Flynn, MC, USN, Special Assistant for Professional Activities, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs); Central Intelligence Agency—Bernard M. Malloy, M.D., Chief of the Psychiatric Division, Office of Medical Services, assisted by Dennis Foreman, Office of General Counsel; Office of Science and Technology Policy—Gilbert S. Ommen, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Director for Human Resources and Social and Economic Services, OSTP, Executive Office of the President, succeeded by John Ball, M.D., J.D., succeeded by Denis Prager, Ph.D.; Veterans Adminis- tration—Dorothy C. Rasinski, M.D., J.D., Associate Director, Medical Legal Affairs; National Science Foundation—Richard T. Louttit, Ph.D., Division Director for Behavioral and Neural Sciences.
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